Category: Thoroughly Mundane

  • Dawn the moments of conscious creation.

    “It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life for me And I’m feeling good” ― Leslie Bricusse, The Leslie Bricusse Songbook Have you ever seen the dawn? Not a dawn groggy with lack of sleep or hectic with mindless obligations and you are about rush off on an early adventure or business, but…

  • Future is noo.

    Three things I  plan to do in the future, but want to do now. Que sara sara… whatever will be will be, the future is not ours to see, que sara sara. This used to be one of favourite humming tunes. It still is. But if I could break out of my comfort zone and…

  • The Status Quo

    During the various cycles, I realized there are huge pockets, like the one that I am going through now where I am reluctant to move forward. Sometimes things are working and sometimes they are not, yet there is a sense of comfort being where I am.  This sense of status of quo is okay as…

  • Over achieving and over reaching.

    Over achieving and over reaching All this while I had my daughters as an excuse  for my falling short of my own expectations. Now that both have left home, I sense the imbalance me. There is this great urge to be best in something. But the story I have been telling myself is that I…

  • Bennekudru – Mulamahastree – Ammana gardi

    . The Justice deliverer of the Mogaveeras. The legends say that Parashurama, the sixth incarnation of Vishnu reclaimed the land from Sagara the Sea God to carve out Parashurama Kshetra.  He got the Brahmins of Aichatra to reside here. He gave them a boon of abundance and got them married to the local fisherwomen. Thus…

  • Trusting divine guidance.

    “Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi Trusting divine guidance would mean accepting a certain amount of trial and error. Actually this was brought to me by Cheryl in one of her talks. I had been wishing for relocation…